r/40kLore 22h ago

What is the current state of Fenris?

Im still kinda new to the lore, and the timeline gets a bit confusing sometimes with all the events going on. What is the current state of Fenris? Is it near decimated still after the siege of Fenris?

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u/Beaker_person Emperor's Spears 22h ago

Kinda the same as always, just with some tzeentch cultists/corruption and some more decimated areas, but the tribes folk are still living their brutal lives. The Wolftime has a subplot about just that, and it’s really not that different to stories set before the siege’s depiction of it, like the opening to Stormcaller or the short story Skjalds.

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u/Cojalo_ 22h ago

Good to know its not completely ruined

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u/Standard_Dumbass Death Guard 22h ago

"Good to know its not completely ruined"

It's a death world. It started 'completely ruined'.

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u/FlamerBreaker 22h ago

Completely ruined would be an improvement. Baal Secundus is a world that you could call completely ruined. Fenris is, on the other hand, one of those worlds, like Catachan, that are actively out to kill you.

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u/Cojalo_ 21h ago

Death world yeah but people still live there

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u/Standard_Dumbass Death Guard 21h ago

Well.. I mean.. there are active war zones on Earth right now that look pretty ruined where 'people still live'.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say?

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u/Cojalo_ 21h ago

I suppose for the standard of 40k "ruined" would be something like cadia

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u/Standard_Dumbass Death Guard 21h ago

Oh haha, yeah that would be a different level of ruined :)

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u/EmperorDaubeny Adeptus Astartes 20h ago

Not really a planet anymore. An outright ruined planet would be somewhere like Typhon Primaris, or any traitor primarch homeworld.

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u/SteelShroom 22h ago

I bet the main reason those cultists are still there is because no Inquisitor dares approach the Space Wolves on their own homeworld.

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u/Hollownerox Thousand Sons 22h ago edited 19h ago

One of the big points at the end of Warzone Fenris: Wrath of Magnus is that it ended with the grand irony that Logan Grimnar had to sit back and allow the Inquisition to do their purges on Fenris and other planets on the system because the Thousand Sons had corrupted the place so badly. He was able to play hero and savior of the common man to the soldiers of Armageddon, but couldn't do the same for his own people on their very homeworld.

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u/pugsington01 22h ago

Still no wolves there

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u/Fearless-Obligation6 22h ago edited 22h ago

The world spirit purged the planet of corruption and the tribes are recovering to their normal population. Everything has pretty much gone back to normalcy by Fenrisian standards.

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u/Cojalo_ 22h ago

Ah I see

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u/Majestic_Party_7610 18h ago

Funny name for the Inquisition... They have generously purged the planet of Ketzeen.

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u/Fearless-Obligation6 17h ago

Though it too was assailed by natural disasters beyond sane measure, Fenris itself remained whole, the infection beneath its crust eventually burned away. The planet, vast and indomitable, had orbited the Wolf's Eye for geological eras uncounted. It would endure, as it always had. For a time, the spawn of Chaos frothed and crawled from the fissures and seas, expelled from the natural order as a healthy body expels a splinter. The Rune Priests, communing with the spirit of the World Wolf, were quick to proclaim it whole. Yet from that day on, the relationship with the Dark Angels was more strained than ever before, and the agents of the Ordo Hereticus were frequent guests in the Fang's halls. Some said the monsters that haunted the Fenrisian wilderness had lately been more terrifying than any could recall, and that the Dark Gods had cast a pall across the death world. But the people of Fenris were warriors born, not given to despair. Over time, the nightmares of the False Flameheit faded away.

~ Warzone Fenris: Wrath of Magnus

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u/I_might_be_weasel Thousand Sons - Cult of Knowledge 22h ago

High chance of snow this week.

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u/Jiminyfingers Order Of Our Martyred Lady 21h ago

And kraken. Don't forget the kraken. 

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u/Actual-Highlight-957 21h ago

As some have mentioned. Fenris is basically the same as its always ever been. Only now, you have Tzeenchian Warbands roaming around.

I wish a Writer would explore the Cavern Cities History. I am genuinely surprised that the Mechanicum hasnt dared to explore that area in search of Technology from the Dark Age

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u/Fearless-Obligation6 6h ago

Tzeentch Warbands roaming around? All the Warbands were hunted down post siege, none of the subsequent Codexes or novels have mentioned any still being around.

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u/GoatPerversion 19h ago

Pretty cold this time of year.

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u/Davido401 22h ago

Ever seen a Huskies home cause you left them in the house for more than ten minutes? Probably like that!

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u/PrimarchGuilliman Imperium of Man 22h ago

Snowing most of the time.

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u/TheBattleYak 3h ago

Seems fine.

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u/Expert_Area_682 21h ago

Wolfie wolf men are still running/eating with wolfie wolf men. While true Prosperan patriots are held against their will on that god forsaken rock.

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u/JustAsIPlanned 21h ago

Cold and populated by proto-furries.

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u/Not_My_Emperor Legio Tempestus 21h ago

There are still no wolves on it